Limitless The Strongest Revenant

"Brutha, you can't really mean that! These people be victims, man! They be innocent! You are willing to work with monsters, but not with those who be reapers?"

Just how emotional must Delroy have been about all this? Despite having [American English], his accent still survived the aggressive filtering of {Listen}. And this was on top of the fact that [American English] could make even people who spoke like Shakespeare sound normal.
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Unaware of how stupid my current line of thought was, Delroy kept trying to make a point. I, on the other hand, continued to annihilate the ghouls. Even though I knew what they once were, I liquidated everything that was still here.

The scenes I saw from {Advent} terrified me. Gaspar acted and talked to the defenders as if he were talking to dogs. Like asking a dog to fetch, the vampire gave the reapers an order. And when no one could do it, he murdered them all.

But while the female reapers' terror was passed on to me, that wasn't the reason why I was scared shitless. Right now my emotions were a fucking mess. So much so that my hands would not stop shaking.

Even though I channeled the fear into action, it was not enough. With all seven of my bodies aggressively shooting down zombies and ghouls, one would think that my body would be able to slowly calm down somehow.

But contrary to that notion, I instead began to become even more anxious. So much so that I began to hear whispers. The same whispers I heard in the vision of {Advent}.

'HE IS SCARY!" "I AM LIMITLESS! WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I Cower?' 'We need to hide!' 'FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!' 'This is boring. Where are the girls?' 'LET'S RUN AWAY!' 'WAIT! Why are we even scared?' 'HAHAHA THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!' 'KILL!

KILL! KILL! KILL!'

Feeling nauseous, my right temple began to throb. Like being drunk, I could hear the blood rushing to my brain. I tried to relax my body, but somehow I felt incredibly weak. My body should still be that of an artificial descendant, right?

"Fuck... {Day by day}. {Never Alone}."

I quickly unsummoned {Day by Day}, invoked my benevol, and instructed the girls.

'Lilly, please guard Pixie. Jas, Liv, I want all the ghouls destroyed. None of them must survive. Give Leo and Nyda the same instructions.'

Unable to stay standing, I was about to fall to the ground when someone suddenly supported me. The sudden burst of souls was almost instantaneous.

A soul signature I knew by instinct. My heart calmed greatly just by her presence. The American I loved the most, Lilly Browning, blinked and appeared at my side.

"Dearest, what am I going to do with you? We've barely been separated 10 minutes and you look like this."

I couldn't help but feel immensely grateful that she was here. With this powerful phantom by my side, relief flooded my body. I was not alone... Unable to answer, I responded through our {Kindred} link.

'Dear, please give me a moment, I need to gather my thoughts.'

"Take all the time you need, dearest. I will watch over you until you are able to stand again."

"Thanks...'

As my vision began to blur, I could hear Lilly talking to D, Pixie and Exa.

"Exa, tell me what happened. Now," the anger in her voice was impossible to hide.

[Lady Lilly, it is not for me to say. Please ask my lord instead.]

"Don't get smart with me, you egotistical, pathetic excuse for an adjutant! Your lord collapsed on the floor and you still refuse to tell me why?"

"Um, my lady. I don't think it was Miss Exa's fault..."

"Did I ask for your opinion, Pixie Richards? Learn etiquette before you speak to me. When speaking to those above you. Unless you are addressed first, hold your tongue and be silent!"

"I-I'm sorry, my lady...I will be silent..."

"Look lady, Pixie is innocent...calm down...uahgkk...."

The sound of a heavy blow landing on flesh resounded. Lilly must have hit D in the solar plexus or something. I should tell her to be nice.

When it concerned me, Lilly's and the Siren's common sense usually jumped out the window.

Because of my benevol, I felt my body slowly relax. The barrier of holy energy silenced the voices I had heard earlier. As my breathing calmed, I tried to remember what I was so afraid of.

While the ghoul tearing the reaper apart was scary, that wasn't why I was scared shitless. It also wasn't the fact that the Reapers that got torn apart all eventually became ghouls. Nor was it the overwhelming power of Gaspar as he took on over a hundred Phantoms.

What was I so afraid of? With {Gather}, I began to replay the memory of {Advent}. I was fine for most of the vision. It was only towards the end that I became a nervous wreck again. Specifically, one phrase sent me into a panic attack.

{My child. Why must you suffer so? Rest. I release you from your suffering. You need endure no longer. Call my name and you will know peace.}

As I remembered the voice again, my heart constricted. My throat closed as if I was being strangled. All the hairs on my body began to stand up. Terrified, I began to hyperventilate.

It was the voice.

Something about the voice was scaring me on an instinctual level. I was acting like someone with PTSD, but why? What was happening to me? I then tried to remember where I had heard such a voice before.

Only for me to remember that "I" wasn't the one who actually heard it.

{Now bid upon mine name and end thy suffering. Reunite with those thou love and awake from this nightmare.}

At the sudden realization, my body began to shake uncontrollably. It was him! The serpent! The one the warriors were all fighting! The one I could not defeat after dying seven times!

"HAA....HAA....HAAAAAAAA...ARRRRGHHHHH.....!!!!"

As if in a nightmare, my body began to move against my will. It was as if my body knew something I did not. A paralyzing fear suffocated me and twisted my insides into a pretzel.

Yet I couldn't move. It was as if I was dreaming lucidly or suffering from sleep paralysis.

"AHHHHH!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!"

I knew I wasn't awake. But there was nothing I could do but scream. My fears suddenly vanished in the next moment. Specifically, they were replaced with another feeling. Immense pain.

I felt something bash me on the left side of my face. The impact made me see stars even with my eyes closed. A split second later, the same object came back and struck my face to the right.

The blows were so powerful that I almost fainted after each one. Within a few seconds, I noticed blood pooling in my mouth. The taste of iron allowed me to sober up, which then allowed me to regain control.

'But fucking hell did it hurt. My cheeks felt like they had been beaten with a sledgehammer. I still had {Limitless} on, right?

Slowly but surely, whatever was paralyzing my body began to disappear. Like a frozen popsicle, I regained control of my limbs as if I had been thawed.

When I was finally able to open my eyes, I saw Lilly grabbing me by the collar. Then I felt her fist slam into my face once more.

No stranger to her right hook, I took a moment to get my bearings. As soon as I could, I raised both my hands to protect my face.

"WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I AM UP! DEAR! I'M UP!"

"See? I told you it would work!" my princess boasted smugly.

"Lilly, is your approach to everything to beat it until it responds? Stop hanging out with Robyn. Your brain is already full of shit. Move over, I'll tend to Husband."

Then I felt a pair of arms gently cradle my face.

"Husband? Are you all right? You acted like you were having a nightmare. We tried everything to wake you up. I didn't stop Lilly because I knew you would wake up from her barbarism."

"THIS CONNIVING SADIST! Doesn't that mean that you would have beaten him anyway if I hadn't been there! ARGH!! Let me go, Liv! I will beat this hemorrhoid voyeur into obedience!"